Flash Back Fridays

A new segment for our little family blog...Flash Back Fridays. Life is buzzing by too fast and I am in the 10 step program for recovering perfectionists so beautiful scrapbooks or lovely organized photo albums are still a dream. Yes, it is true for a Type AAA person but I am trying to let go of these character flaws and find photo freedom in the near future. I think this forward thinking could be tied into our family theme of simplify this year. So, that being said I perused our old photos (basically since we bought our digital camera circa November '02) and found some of the girls when they were just little munchkins...it just seemed like yesterday we bought these little bundles of joy home and found ourselves with no manual on what to do when they spit up, cry for an hour straight, don't want to be breastfed (everyone else wasn't having this problem), have severe baby acne or a diaper rash that extends up their back (that didn't really happen...it's just an exaggeration).


These photos were taken around June 2003. I have no idea where Kate learned how to use the phone properly. If this was taken today she would have a laptop sitting on her lap looking up baby blogs. The other photo I took for Jeff's first official Father's Day present. Oh, those were the days when being a father was a lot simpler...now it is getting more complex (and expensive) with chore charts, shopping expenses, disrespect lectures, hair color treatments to cover up all the grey hair, and endless "no, you can't have that..."



Sweet baby Anna Caroline leaving the hospital...I can still see those little dried up hands...I tend to overcook my babies so they are welcomed into this world needing a good rub down of Johnson's Baby Lotion. And we can't forget Miss Morgan being the great furry sister that she was...too bad she couldn't have spent more time with us...7 1/2 years was too short a lifetime for her. She loved sitting by and protecting the girls when they were babies.



Oh yes, we have come a long way...this isn't a flash back this is a nightmare! This is a snap shot of our little basement in our old house. That would be my makeshift craft room in the corner and beyond the rubble there is an ironing table which I am guessing not too many things were being ironed back then (or crafted)...who would want to spend much time down here. I believe this was taken as a before photo or a part of my own self-induced therapy...whatever the case our current basement is not as bad but we need to remember we are in the year of simplify at the Bartig house so anything like this is a mere memory from our past.